2025 Kern County, California Wildfires
Newest wildfires in Kern County
Largest wildfires in Kern County this season
All 2025 Kern County Fires · 18 fires
A fire is listed here when it is located in Kern County. Each complex is counted once, through its parent: the parent carries the complex's acres, and its member fires are listed beneath it without being counted again. A fire that crossed a county line is listed with the acres that burned in Kern County, not its whole reported size. A fire located elsewhere that burned into Kern County is listed too, at its Kern County acres, and is not added to the Kern County fire counts. County lines come from a different boundary dataset than state lines, so Kern County's acres are counted along county lines and can differ a little at the edges from the figures on the state page.
| Fire | Start date | Containment | Status | Acres | Center | Ignition point |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dogs Fire | Jun 14, 2025 | — | Inactive | 4,406 | 35.5710, -118.9803 | — |
| Jaw Fire | May 23, 2025 | — | Inactive | 4,326 | 35.3152, -118.1791 | — |
| Little Fire | Aug 22, 2025 | 100% | Inactive | 2,548 | 35.5875, -118.5829 | 35.5666, -118.5822 |
| Democrat Fire | May 19, 2025 | 90% | Inactive | 895 | 35.4733, -118.6939 | — |
| Fay Fire | Jul 16, 2025 | 100% | Inactive | 648 | 35.7408, -118.2938 | 35.6890, -118.2952 |
| Hudson Fire | Jun 13, 2025 | — | Inactive | 623 | 34.9637, -119.4044 | — |
| Paladino Fire | Sep 2, 2025 | — | Inactive | 461 | 35.4214, -118.9374 | — |
| Richbar Fire | Aug 11, 2025 | — | Inactive | 158 | 35.4708, -118.7227 | — |
| Lierly Fire | Aug 23, 2025 | 100% | Inactive | 139 | 34.9950, -119.0450 | — |
| Fort Fire | Jun 5, 2025 | — | Inactive | 133 | 34.8941, -118.9229 | — |
| Frazier Fire | May 29, 2025 | — | Inactive | 104 | 34.8254, -118.9139 | — |
| Butter Fire | Aug 26, 2025 | — | Inactive | 48 | 35.4655, -118.1475 | 35.4279, -118.1606 |
| Aqueduct Fire | Sep 7, 2025 | 100% | Inactive | 14 | 35.2240, -118.1180 | — |
| Aquaduct Fire | Sep 7, 2025 | — | Inactive | 13 | 35.2682, -118.0988 | 35.2237, -118.1181 |
| Honolulu 3 Fire | Jul 21, 2025 | — | Inactive | 1 | 35.1493, -119.3702 | 35.1538, -119.3717 |
| Cyrus Fire | Jul 7, 2025 | — | Inactive | 1 | 35.7027, -118.4153 | 35.7034, -118.4226 |
| Cow Fire | Nov 3, 2025 | — | Inactive | 0 | 35.5770, -117.9611 | 35.5781, -117.9390 |
| Assist/Kern/Desert Fire | Apr 25, 2025 | — | Inactive | 0 | 35.1438, -117.9346 | 35.1405, -117.9250 |
| Also burned into Kern County | ||||||
| Springs Fire from Tulare County | May 6, 2025 | — | Inactive | 135 of 1,608 | 35.8036, -118.9421 | — |
| Totals | 2025 Season Fires 18 | Active Fires 0 | Acres Burning 0 | 2025 Season Acres 14,653 | ||
Land cover · Kern County 2025
Burned acres in Kern County for the 2025 season, split by the kind of land that burned. Each figure counts the LANDFIRE 30 m cells inside a fire's latest mapped perimeter. The Fires tab carries the reported season acreage.
Forest ownership · Kern County 2025
Burned forest acres in Kern County for the 2025 season, split by who owns the land. Owners are mapped for forestland, so every figure here counts burned cells whose LANDFIRE lifeform is Tree. The Fires tab carries the season acreage this site reports.
Burn severity · Kern County 2025
Burned acres in Kern County for the 2025 season, split by how severely each cell of ground burned. Each figure counts the 30 m cells inside a fire's latest mapped perimeter, measured from satellite imagery. The Fires tab carries the reported season acreage.
Severity comes from the differenced normalized burn ratio (dNBR), the same index the federal burn severity programs publish, classified with the standard thresholds.
This is an initial assessment. Trees keep dying for months after a burn, so severity in forest reads conservative until the official assessments arrive after the season.